Harold Macmillan - Power Quotes

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Harold Macmillan

It is always a matter of regret from the personal point of view when divergences arise between colleagues, but it is the team that matters and not the individual, and I am quite happy about the strength and the power of the team, and so I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.

Harold Macmillan

We have seen the awakening of national consciousness in peoples who have for centuries lived in dependence upon some other power... The wind of change is blowing through the continent, and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Harold Macmillan